The pit works in mysterious ways

Pawnee Zoo

Leslie and Olivia were standing in front of a crowd, of mainly toddlers, and a few adults at the Pawnee Zoo. Sun shining and a big banner hanging over the enclosure that read 'Tux and Flipper'. April was to the sisters right, in a bridesmaid dress to one of the penguins as Leslie was about to officiate their marriage.

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"We've  been spending the summer doing a lot of zoo promotions." Olivia explained pointing to all the penguin merch around the two sisters. "Parrots live a very long time. So we had a birthday party for a parrot that turned 60.Chimpanzees are very smart, so we had them graduate from college. And they like to fling their feces, so we were hoping that they would fling their hats. But they just flung their feces..."

Olivia trailed off, haunted by the thought of what happened that summer. But thankfully Leslie picked up where her sister left off.

"The Pawnee Zoo recently purchased two South African black-footed penguins, Tux and Flipper. And as part of our zoo promotion, we are going to give them a marriage ceremony, because they mate for life."

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"Tux, do you take Flipper, to be your lawfully wedded wife?" Leslie asks the penguins as the crowd becomes very quiet. And of course they didn't answer, because they're penguins, Leslie helped them out.

In a high pitched voice Leslie said "I do! I do!" imitating the penguins then continued.

"By the power vested in me from the Department of Parks and Recreation, I now pronounce you husband and wife!"

The crowd cheered and the Knope sister looked off into the said crowd. Till they heard so unreserved 'oohh's and 'aahh's. To turn around and only find the two penguins... consummating their marriage, as Olivia would put it. Leslie in good nature laughed it off and said.

"Okay, well, at least they're married."

"Are they making babies?" One of the little kids asks, and the local zoo keeper answers the kids' question.

"Well, not those two. Those are both boy penguins."

"I'm sorry?" Leslie asks, confused.

"You didn't know that?" Olivia asks Leslie in a different form of confusion.

Leslie the zoo keeper explains. "Tux and Flipper are both boys. So you should have pronounced them husband and husband, technically."

"That's awesome." April says in a positive way, which is surprising because April is never positive.

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"People in this town don't really like their government employees being activists." Leslie said. But Olivia has no such reservation.

"I told them to suck my dick. Government and politics go hand in hand. They're all just hateful bigots." Olivia says with no reservations.

"Last year, a garbage man was suspended for wearing a Live Strong bracelet." Leslie explains the extent of how stupid these people are. And Olivia next to her sister is boiling in rage.

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Later that day after the wedding Leslie was in the break room gluing pictures of the wedding into her scrapbook. She also forced Olivia to cut them to size, Jerry came in holding a cake with two penguins on it.

"Hey, Leslie, Olivia, some guy who owns a gay bar sent you a cake." Jerry explains setting the cake down in front of the sisters. Tom took it upon himself to read the card.